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Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – May 1, 1951) was a British-American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. Cecil's career began on the stage, where she appeared in a single Broadway production, The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, which ran for more than 240 performances at the Broadway Theatre in 1901-02. (A 1930 newspaper article says that Cecil "made her debut, three decades ago, on the London stage.")
Cecil appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts.
In 1915, she moved from the stage into films, her first appearance being in a starring role in The Arrival of Perpetua, directed by Émile Chautard. She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law" and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts".
One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, The Old Fashioned Way in 1934. Some of the other notable films in which Cecil appeared include: Ernst Lubitsch's historical romance, The Merry Widow, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald; the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney; the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne.
Her final acting performance was in a featured role in Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell.
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02 November 1934
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
15 November 1930
When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
04 April 1939
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice.
19 May 1939
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk.
25 December 1932
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
07 December 1931
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
19 November 1947
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin.
16 September 1932
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I.
09 August 1944
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure.
05 March 1917
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy.
04 January 1935
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine.
25 April 1947
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
01 April 1942
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
14 March 1941
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary.
30 October 1942
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
30 April 1937
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in.
18 February 1938
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel.
30 June 1933
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up.
03 August 1945
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels.
29 December 1933
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
31 August 1934
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him.
27 January 1929
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure.
02 March 1939
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
10 November 1920
For revenge, wealthy Osbert Gault marries Virginia Mynors, the daughter of a woman who had jilted him years earlier.
06 June 1946
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York.
08 April 1932
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
02 August 1940
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
30 August 1940
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
29 January 1917
Tillie and her neighbor Mr. Pipkins are both distraught over their respective marriages. One day, they sneak off to have a lively time at Coney Island.
16 September 1916
An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from her boss.
24 January 1930
In London, during WWI, a lonely woman who wants to feel a part of the war effort pretends to her friends to have a son fighting in the war.
10 March 1933
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not.
27 July 1934
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
03 November 1927
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with.
01 September 1917
A dying stranger abandons a baby girl in a gypsy camp, with a note explaining that on her eighteenth birthday, she is to inherit a Virginia estate.
18 March 1933
Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing himself a descendant of Tarzan.
10 January 1936
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
13 July 1934
The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
05 February 1937
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa.
23 October 1941
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it.
25 October 1935
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
22 December 1933
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him.
01 August 1934
The girls buy a country home that turns out to be a sand trap.
19 November 1937
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
02 September 1964
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
14 March 1926
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B.
19 December 1936
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
23 August 1946
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
28 April 1934
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
28 October 1932
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
02 April 1927
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.
01 March 1931
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill.
15 March 1935
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
21 May 1937
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
01 September 1942
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory.
05 October 1936
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
10 March 1933
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
24 March 1926
A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied.
24 December 1932
Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.
04 February 1938
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
